‘Profoundly unAmerican': Critics blast ‘cruelty’ of Trump DOJ's request
The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a judge’s order requiring officials to return to the United States a Maryland father from the El Salvadoran megaprison he was wrongfully deported to.
But the court of public opinion beat the nine justices to it and quickly weighed in on the latest debacle to hit President Donald Trump’s administration as his Department of Justice faces a midnight deadline to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S.
And that includes some on Capitol Hill who were up in arms over the DOJ’s position.
“Two federal courts have ordered the Trump admin to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to his US citizen wife & child in Maryland,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal wrote Monday on X. “The admin already admitted they wrongly deported him. They cannot continue defying judicial rulings. Bring Kilmar back NOW.”
Sarah Elfreth (D-MD) echoed that position, while giving her Bluesky followers more background on Garcia, who she said, “lived in Maryland legally with his five-year-old son, a work permit, and protection from deportation granted by an immigration judge in 2019.”
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“Our judiciary has ruled that the White House’s deportation was illegal — they had no legal authority to arrest him, no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador," Elfreth wrote on Bluesky. “Abrego García should be home with his family tonight.”
“Trump disappeared Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador,” the progressive account LA Blue Dot in GA posted on Bluesky. “His admin admitted his deportation was an administrative error. Trump wants SCOTUS to let him ignore a judge’s order to bring him back home. Mr. Garcia's fate could not be in worse hands.”
“The cruelty is the point,” The Tennessee Holler posted on Bluesky.
"This is bats---,” Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko wrote on Bluesky.
“The Trump administration must admit its mistake and return Kilmar Armando Abregi Garcia to his family,” Rootstock Philanthropy CEO Brad Smith wrote in a Bluesky post. “This macho Soviet era gulag crap is profoundly unAmerican.”